'Ello! I'm PurpleCosmoStar, aka Cosmo. I have been drawing on the internet for over 5 years, am an amature animator/writer, and have a tendancy to lurk around my favorite fandoms. She/Her pronouns please!
Critical Role (The Mighty Nein mostly but I watched all of the shows and bits of C4)
Project Hail Mary
D&D in gerneral
HermitCraft
Castoff (Go read this webcomic, its real good Link)
Warriors (My beloved first fandom)
My OC's
Other:
I am a chronically terrible speller, so if I get somthing wrong please ignore it, I probably won't be able to change it. (English is my native language, I just hate it)
Please no NSFW
The little gal on the top of this post is my Sona/Mascot charracter, also named Cosmo
It's been just over a year since Deltarune chapters 3 & 4 released! I did the 3D work, which mostly means Tenna 📺 I figured it's been long enough to share some "behind the scenes" stuff, starting with a look at the Maya file for his static poses...
I'd individually render the poses to get that early 3D shine ✨ Here's some of them at their original resolutions! I would work from text descriptions from Toby, and sometimes there'd be a Paint sketch to help out. Gigi drew the concept that I modeled from and some poses too!
I had a lot of fun pushing myself to match the dynamic poses Toby had in mind for Tenna - making him so crazy and expressive was something I couldn't have done without his prompts. He'd draw the faces on afterward too, which really brought Tenna to life!
(lots more after the Read More cut...!)
Here are some of the Paint sketches Toby drew to help me with specific Tenna poses! I love seeing his drawings LOL, genuinely really good and evocative 👍
There was a time when I was struggling to capture what he wanted for these specific Tenna poses… Until Toby acted them out himself, and I thought, "Ah, it's like that. I understand." and then I was able to make them just how he pictured them.
When looking through the renders and choosing what to share, I laughed at these two… Remember when Tenna had a gun? Remember when he bent over in a very specific way that might remind you of another, different image? No? Maybe you don't…? Well. Don't worry about it.
These ones are cute… Tenna is pretty cute sometimes! Has anyone ever thought this? Actually, before people knew he was going to be a strange 3D sprite the Whole Time, I was worried people wouldn't like the style and it'd sour people's views on him. I'm glad that didn't happen.
Toby thought it would be funny to have Tenna do some really smooth, mocapped animations sometimes - specifically free to use ones that often pop up in other things. An extra funny part to me is how many frames these take up in the game, and how his tails are stuck to his legs…
Speaking of mocap, Toby wanted Tenna to use custom mocap animations as far back as 2016 - Ten(na) years ago! I got an Xbox Kinect at the time and learnt how to set this up, but then never used it. Here's a look at messing with mocaped stuff again in 2022. So Normal.
Don't bother trying to help him here, he's just being dramatic 🙄
I particularly like these poses - I think I improvised most of these just based off the context they get used in… I always liked posing his tie and coat tails as if they were also parts of his body he could move. Which I guess they are?
After I rendered out the individual poses in high quality, I'd force the color palette to be limited to just a few shades and then I'd shrink the result down to pixel sized sprites. Like these! I'd tidy them up a little, but they'd really get improved on at the pixel scale by Clairvoire.
As well as Tenna's sprites, I also worked on his intro "movie"…! Seeing people be completely overloaded by this on first playthroughs would always make me laugh. In game, there's a ton of extra editing done by Everdraed, but my unedited cut looks like this ⬇️
This was the entire storyboard I had to work from, and I'm realizing now that there's the note "put him in car etc" that I never did and actually don't know what it would mean exactly. Working on this had me listen to the accompanying audio many times, but it's good so it's okay.
Here are a bunch of random clips of the Maya project for Tenna's intro movie. This is how movies get made, I think!! Yeah… Just like this.
Say it with him, folks!!
For the 3D Ralsei clip from the intro, Toby really wanted it to look a certain way, and drew more sketches for guiding me with this part than any other. They genuinely helped.
Remember how Toby's original storyboard has the note "covered in slime and shrinks"? That meant I had to learn how to make 3D slime. You can see my tech advancing here.
I'm really happy with how the final Tenna animation at the end of the intro movie turned out! It wouldn't look as good if it wasn't for some 2D animation to reference from SmallBuStudio, so thank you to them for the help! Tenna is cute… Huh, I already said that…?
Phew!! That's a lot of Tenna. I hope it was fun to look through my posts! Oh, one more thing - the Fangamer Mr. Tenna Figurine just straight up uses the 3D model I made, which I think is really funny and cool and nice. Check it out if you want! Thanks for reading!
the best fanfiction you've ever read was written by a woman in her 40s before she made dinner for her kids. it was written by a teenager after school when they should've been studying for a history test. and a barista came up with the idea while they cleaned the espresso machine and busser fact-checked it on their break and the post-doc edited between writing grant proposals and the nurse apologized for typos in the notes after a long shift and behind every drabble and one-shot and multi-chapter fic there is a person with a wonderful and interesting and chaotic life and it is such a privilege that we get to be a part of it because they decided to do this thing we all share, for fun.
Happy Pride! I drew some of my OC's with their flag colors for a fun limited palet.
Lore + Close ups under cut
Rayven: Genderfuild and Aroace. Rayvens gender is best described as ~vauge~ Its very fluid and they use all pronouns at any time, but tend to favor certian pronouns at differant times. They also are aroace!
Lore: Agender and Aroace. Lore mostly uses they/them pronouns, but dosn't mind if people use others for them. They are also in aroace solidarity with Rayven.
Kavi: Asexual, Panromantic. Kavi descovered he was ace later in his life, only after his son, Lal, was born and his sons mother left them. He uses he/him pronouns
Edelweiss: Eddle is a lesbian! Not really much to say about her, she jsut liked women!
You know, as a kid I was always a little upset when my favoret artests started drawing fandoms I wasn't in. Like, I came here for warrior cats and cartoons, why are you drawing real people? Gross!!!
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this is my anoucment that I am obsesed with PHM and have drawn so many rocks and real people it's not funny
Dang, I've been on a roll with OC art resently. This is Rayven, Kavi and Lore. I'm sure theres no deeper symbolisim with these or anything related to there deep seeded neriosies, so sir.
Somtimes when I'm board I open up my camra, take a picture of some random thing, and paint over it in the base phone photo editor. Its very fun, but I got a few weird looks from the guy sitting next to me.
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